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Jul 1, 2013 · July 1, 2013. Thirteen years before the Wright brothers’ pioneering flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., a French inventor named Clément Ader climbed into a bat-like contraption at an isolated French estate and made aviation history of his own. On Oct. 9, 1890, Ader opened the throttle on his steam-powered aircraft Éole and roared down a level 700 ...
Oct 9, 2012 · As Clément Ader held on, his invention, the bat-winged Éole, raced forward. At the front, a huge four-bladed propeller spun furiously. Behind the prop, running with intense heat and precision, an alcohol-burning lightweight steam engine screamed — this was the key to his invention, an engine light enough and powerful enough to allow Éole ...
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Ader Éole. Clément Ader's Avion French patent 205155, 19 April 1890. The Ader Éole, also called Avion (French for aeroplane ), was an early steam -powered aircraft developed by Clément Ader in the 1890s and named after the Greco-Roman wind god Aeolus. [1]
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Oct 9, 2023 · Clément Ader, 1897. 9 October 1890: At the Château d’Amainvilliers, near Gretz, Clément Ader’s flying machine, Éole, flew for the first time. An inventor, Ader had recently spent months in Algeria, observing the vultures. When he returned to France he began to design and build a bat-like machine with a wing spread of 46 feet (14 meters ...
Significant advance. First self-propelled flight (1890) Clément Ader (2 April 1841 – 3 May 1925) [1] [2] was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse. He is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. In 1870 he was also one of the pioneers in the sport of cycling ...
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On Oct. 9, 1890, Ader became the first pilot to achieve a powered takeoff from level ground, though his flight lasted only a few seconds and barely cleared the ground. Ader Éole, monoplane designed, built, and first tested by the French aeronautical pioneer Clément Ader in 1890. For a table of pioneer aircraft, see history of flight.
Although the 'Bat' plane remains virtually unknown outside France, and in spite of the fact that Ader's copy of the natural model (faithful right down to the terms he used - 'arm', 'forearm', 'fingers', 'elbow', 'wood') seems naive and clumsy today, all these technical concepts, for which Ader had no theoretical bases or experimental means at ...
